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	<description>Your Ultimate Source for America&#039;s Greatest Military Music</description>
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		<title>New Website!  Check it out!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jack Kopstein has launched a new website that features an encyclopedia of military band musicians, music, and conductors from around the world!  This is a very valuable resource, be sure to check it out! World Book of Military Music]]></description>
		<link>http://militarymusic.com/blog/2012/01/new-website-check-it-out/</link>
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		<title>Redirect to January Community Band Spotlight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for the incorrect link.  Please click here to view the January Community Band Spotlight featuring the Plano, TX Community Band!]]></description>
		<link>http://militarymusic.com/blog/2012/01/community-band%e2%80%a6t-january-2012/</link>
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		<title>Kenneth J. Alford</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The music of Kenneth J Alford has become synonymous with the tradition of British military music and in particular the Royal Marine bands.

Kenneth Alford (Fredrick Joseph Ricketts) was born in London on February 21, 1881. Yearning for a career in military music, he joined the Royal Irish Regiment in 1895. After playing the cornet, piano and organ in the Royal Irish Regiment and serving in India, Frederick Joseph R Ricketts became a student bandmaster at the Royal Military School of Music in 1904 . He became the bandmaster for the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in 1908. He also served as director of music for the Royal Marines where he gained his most prominence. Ricketts composed under his...]]></description>
		<link>http://militarymusic.com/blog/2012/01/kenneth-j-alford/</link>
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		<title>Community Band Spotlight January 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Community Band Spotlight this month features the band of Plano, Texas!
The Plano Community Band is a non-profit volunteer organization, which currently has 85 active members from all walks of life: college students, doctors, mechanical engineers, software engineers, teachers, financial analysts, veterinarian, music teachers, geologist, marketing, and many more!  Throughout the years there have been many retired military service members who have joined the band, and some even played in one of the military bands while enlisted!  The mission of the band is to provide quality music, free of charge, to a wide variety of audiences.....]]></description>
		<link>http://militarymusic.com/blog/2012/01/community-band-spotlight-january-2012/</link>
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		<title>Hail to the Chief</title>
		<description><![CDATA["Hail to the Chief" is a march primarily associated with the President of the United States. Its playing accompanies the appearance of the President at many public appearances. For major official occasions, the United States Marine Band and other military ensembles generally are the performers. It is preceded by four ruffles and flourishes when played for the President.]]></description>
		<link>http://militarymusic.com/blog/2011/12/hail-to-the-chief/</link>
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		<title>Community Band Spotlight December 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Community Band Spotlight this month features the band of Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, a historic town full of Victorian charm.  The group consists of volunteer musicians of all ages from the surrounding areas.  Their mission: “to share our love of music, and have fun while doing so.”  This year the band celebrates it’s 27th anniversary!
Bellefonte Community Band consists of about 50 members, ranging from middle school students to retirees.  Five members of the band are veterans, and three were military band musicians....]]></description>
		<link>http://militarymusic.com/blog/2011/12/community-band-spotlight-december-2011/</link>
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		<title>Christmas Videos by US Military Bands</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Great videos of Christmas performances by the US Military Bands.]]></description>
		<link>http://militarymusic.com/blog/2011/11/christmas-videos-by-us-military-bands/</link>
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		<title>Community Band Spotlight October 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Karl King Band is the municipal band for Fort Dodge, Iowa. This ensemble has historically provided a summer concert series in the Karl King Bandshell in beautiful Oleson Park and an indoor concert series held in the auditorium of Iowa Central Community College. The outdoor, summer concert series is an 80 year tradition. The first summer concert was in 1921, after Karl King arrived in Ft. Dodge. These concerts are free to all, and are provided as a service by the City of Fort Dodge. The Karl King Band performs most concerts with an instrumentation of 40 – 45 musicians. Most players live around the area, but there a few that come from as far away as Des Moines and Sioux City . . . ]]></description>
		<link>http://militarymusic.com/blog/2011/10/the-karl-king-band/</link>
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		<title>15th Field Artillery Regiment Band, RCA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Fifteenth Field Regiment began in February 1920 after a decision by the Canadian Artillery to formally establish a militia unit in Vancouver. Originally called the Fifteenth Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery, the unit consisted of several horse drawn cannons manned by a group of battle hardened veterans of the First World War. Although there is no official record of a band in the early years of the unit, other sources indicate military bands performed throughout British Columbia as early as the 1860's. . . .]]></description>
		<link>http://militarymusic.com/blog/2011/10/15th-field-artillery-regiment-band-rca/</link>
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		<title>The Stars and Stripes Forever</title>
		<description><![CDATA["The Stars and Stripes Forever" is a patriotic American march widely considered to be the finest work of composer John Philip Sousa. In fact ,the march received the great honor of being selected by an act of Congress as the National March of the United States of America in 1987.

Surprisingly, John Philip Sousa's great American patriotic march, "The Stars and Stripes Forever," was written not in the aftermath of a great battle, but on. . . ]]></description>
		<link>http://militarymusic.com/blog/2011/09/the-stars-and-stripes-forever/</link>
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